[ecrea] "The Revolution will not be televised?" Media and Protest Movements after 1945

"The Revolution will not be televised?" Media and Protest Movements after 1945

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BeiträgerRolf Werenskjold/ Martin Klimke <(rebekka.weinel /at/ t-online.de)>
Veröffentlicht am03.02.2008
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Klassifikation
Regionaler Schwerpunkt Ohne regionalen Schwerpunkt
Epochale Zuordnung 1945-1989
Thematischer Schwerpunkt Kulturgeschichte, Film- und Mediengeschichte


Hosted and organized by Volda University College 
and the Interdisciplinary Research Forum on 
Protest Movements, Activism and Social Dissent 
(IFK Protest, Interdisziplinäres Forschungskolloquium Protestbewegungen).
Supported by The Freedom of Expression Foundation, Norway.
Supported by the Marie Curie Research Network 
European Protest Movements Since 1945 (www.protest-research.eu)

The conference will direct its attention towards 
central aspects of the interaction of 
social/political protest movements and the media 
in the era after Second World War. Given the 
40-year anniversary of the international revolt 
of 1968, a special focus will be laid on the 
1960s and 1970s and the notions of mass media and 
democracy in a globalized news world.

Recent research has emphasized the role of the 
mass media in the dissemination of protest ideas 
and practices across different countries and 
regions. However, the crucial role of the media 
played in a time of instantaneous satellite 
communication and increased time-space 
compression has largely been seen taken for 
granted. Only few studies have analyzed the way 
in which various media systems covered the 
protest movements around the world and their 
exchange and recontextualization of ideas and 
cultural practices. The relationship of protest 
movements relationship to the mass media in the 
period was often ambiguous, fraught with both 
interaction and conflict. In consequence, 
activists often sought to establish alternative 
media structures or their own news services.

The conference therefore follows a twofold goal: 
It aims to investigate the journalists covering 
protest and dissent in various geographical 
regions and political circumstances, thus 
creating the public images of the protest 
movement and their goals. From such a 
perspective, the mass media can be seen as a 
vantage point from which to further evaluate the 
establishments reaction to domestic and 
international protest. On the other hand, the 
conference will also focus on the various ways in 
which activists tried to reach out and presented 
themselves to the public, whether it was through 
the traditional mass media such as newspapers, 
radio and television or other channels of communication.

In doing so, we want to examine the complex 
interrelation between instrumental and expressive 
protest actions and the media coverage more 
closely: How do protesters design their protest 
actions in order to attract media attention of 
the media? And how, conversely, does the media 
assimilate the visual and performative aspects of 
the symbolic protest actions? Keeping these two 
strains in mind, the conference is dedicated to 
the creation of new approaches on the ways 
social, cultural and political protest is mediated.

Thematically, we therefore call for contributions from studies within:

- theoretical perspectives on the medias 
coverage of the protests and dissent (including 
reception research, framing theory and discourse analysis)
- protest and media worldwide (comparative or 
studies of trans-national communication are encouraged)
- the depiction of protest movements in mass 
media (television, radio, newspapers)
- the role of imagery and pictures in news coverage of protest
- the use of political cartoons in framing protest movements or events
- studies of journalist covering protest and dissent
- editorial processes that directed or influenced news coverage
- international media structures and news transmission
- protest movements featured in the media debate 
(including the womens liberation, the 
environmentalist or peace movement, or new and contemporary social movements)
- media strategies of activists (including the 
use of posters, pamphlets, underground radio and newspapers, and the internet)

The conference will feature workshops with 
leading media scholars and historians; panel 
discussions of trans-disciplinary and general 
thematical approaches. The purpose is also to 
promote a lively international and 
interdisciplinary dialogue and create a basis for 
future scholarly teamwork across national, cultural and regional borders.

Applications from postgraduate students, early 
stage researchers (PhD-students), postdocs and 
young scholars from all disciplinary and national 
backgrounds are strongly encouraged.

Successful applicants will be provided with 
living allowance that should cover all necessary 
expenses during the conference. The organizers 
will also provide a limited travel grant.

The conference language will be English.

Deadline for applications and abstracts: April 1, 2008.

Selections will be made by: May 1, 2008.

Please use online application at: www.hivolda.no/protest

Further questions or suggestions: (rof /at/ hivolda.no)

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